Tom Hesse

Born and raised in Cedar Falls, I completed my undergraduate degree at UNI in 1999 with majors in history and philosophy.  After graduate school I taught a variety of philosophy, ethics, logic, and interdisciplinary courses at Kirkwood Community College.  In 2012 I returned to UNI and started teaching the Humanities I/II/III (Western Civilizations) sequence, often in large 120-student sections.  I now teach much smaller sections of Science, Technology, and Ethics, a course I helped create for the Department of Philosophy and World Religions. 

Over the years I have also done a large amount of service for the university.  Currently I am a faculty representative on President Mark Nook’s Budget Advisory Committee, and I am the treasurer for United Faculty, the faculty union at UNI.  Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions.